#Context

Scott Hamilton RTM

SikotiHamiltonR

1 Rutger Bregman's written a fascinating account of a group of castaways on the Tongan island of 'Ata for the Guardian. But the story has a much darker historical background

Andabatae

Andabatae1

This fandom is downright EAGER to catch someone making a mistake so they can loudly cancel that person and get acclaim for it. Everyone makes mistakes, and a mod accidentally

Saad Saeed

SaadSaeed2

What a biased piece by @BBCWorld!There are so many factual inaccuracies, deliberate evasions, calculated generalisations & outright misstatements that one gets convinced that it has been written by someone with

Hannah Nicklin 🌹

hannahnicklin

Re ‘wholesome’ - the opposite of an aesthetic of exploitation and violence is not an aesthetic of softness and giving, it’s the design and stories told against the grain of

Kari Plog

KariPlog

THREAD: I've seen a video circulating that, in a nutshell, says "citizen journalists" are uncovering what "mainstream media" won't tell you — that hospitals around the country are empty. So,

scribbleb_red 🌻✨

RedScribbleb

One of my favourite quotes from Milton is this: “books are as meats and viands are; some of good, and some of evil substance; and yet God, in that unapocryphal

Liz Howard

lizlhoward

After the bitterly divided Arizona Senate voted along to partisan lines to force Maricopa County election officials to hand over their 2020 election materials, incl’g 2.1M ballots, it has proven

Dougie Kass

DougKass

I mentioned yesterday that I no longer will be a regular on Twitter. Still the case.On @realmoney this morning I present the contrary - if you get a chance go

The Securocrat

TheSecurocrat

As @kritibami asked, some podcast recommendations for @UKACSC commuting. These are really just the starting point, the world is your oyster! First, find some good general and current affairs ones

Amine Skalli

MinoSkeu

WFH will have a lot of implications for jobs.Predictions Bit of context. Before this crisis and the WFH wave : - Fully distributed companies (@basecamp, @buffer, @automattic / Wordpress...) had

gaming disorder bun

roun_sa_ville

if you needed any more proof that Gwen “listen to BIPOC” Snyder is an egomaniacal hypocrite, she blocked my (indigenous) friend for engaging her in earnest Disagree with her or

WHA Grad Caucus

WHAGrads

Hi all! I'm Nathan Ellstrand, @nellstra, a PhD Candidate at @loyolahistdept. Thanks to @WHAGrads for the opportunity to takeover! My work focuses on the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS or National

Asfandyar Mir

asfandyarmir

[Thread] I’m very pleased to share my latest report, “Afghanistan’s Terrorism Challenge: The Political Trajectories of al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, and the Islamic State,” published by the @MiddleEastInst. 1/10https://www.mei.edu/p

Jeremy Boreing

JeremyDBoreing

Wait. What are we pushing?https://twitter.com/timcast/status/1259463285193261056 First, Daily Wire as an organization has no official position on this tragedy. I don’t agree with @MattWalshBlog’s take, for example. Which one of us

Nicky Bandini

NickyBandini

A thread about my greatest career regret (prompted, improbably, by news of the imminent retirement of an American brand of pancake syrup https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/business/aunt-jemima-logo-change/index.html). In the summer of 2014,

robyn

repurobyn

i’m addressing this bc a whole account was made to “expose” me.https://twitter.com/fan41902743/status/1331039432871329792 DISCLAIMER: this thread mentions lesphobiait’ll be kinda long but i felt as if it was appropriate to defend